Wednesday, November 06, 2013

(Prameela KP with Sarojini Sahoo at International Book Fair,
Calicut , 2008)

(Dr. Prameela K.P,
the Malayalam critics, writer, poet and translator has been awarded with Devi
Shankar Awasthi Samman for her Hindi book ‘Kavita ke Stri Paksha’ on 5. 04.
2010. She is the first person from South India to receive this award meant for
Hindi writing.

Well known for her frankness, Dr. Sarojini Sahoo is a prime figure and trendsetter of feminism in
contemporary Oriya literature. For her feminism is not a gender problem or any
confrontational attack on male hegemony. She accepts feminism as a total entity
of femalehood, which is completely separate from the man's world. She writes
with a greater consciousness of women bodies, which would create a more honest
and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation and non-linearity. Her
fictions always project a feminine sensibility from puberty to menopause. The
feminine feelings like restrictions in the adolescence, the pregnancy, the fear
factors like being raped or being condemned by society and the concept of a bad
girl etc always have the thematic exposure in her novels and short stories.
More details on her are available in her profile.

Here
Prameela K.P engages Sarojini Sahoo in a
conversation.)

1. As a woman, what is writing for you all
about? Do you look who wrote

the writing while read?

Writing
for me never any day coined with any social responsibility. It is a media for